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Trisha McCrae. Born in Dublin, Ireland. Lives and works in Charente, France.

“We can not know and we can not be known”Samuel Beckett.

I offer an artistic approach that is raw, provocative and resonant. I create video environments that are contemplative and allow the viewer to engage corporally as they walk around sculptures and through reflected video light. The spaces hold fear, shame and secrecy. My themes are inspired by old stories and centre around archetypes such as heros, bullies, martyrs and innocents.

The sculptured half-human, half-animal forms declare their bodies as symptoms of a wider societal crisis, as forces of deconstruction and metamorphosis. I use feathers, skins and velvets to cover old objects and mannequin parts. These embodied archetypes are part know by everyone.There is a strange familiarity to theirgrotesque enigmatic presence.They talk to themselves, to each other and to the viewer and speak of the endless contested dialogues between conflicting individuals. With blood vessels and internal organs exposed they reveal the anxiety and torment of humanity.

The films ‘mapped’ onto their bodies are their words and illuminate their story. The image and sounds give voice and mood so that the whole environment can speak. The films explore the surface of the sculptures and reveal both the material skin of the fabric and Proteus * skin of the films.

I choose to exhibit these works in dark safe womb like spaces. I research texts that explicate and help materialise emotions. For example the tale of Mamnon, the ancient Egyptian colossus stone that spoke, was the starting point for my video environment Les Pierres Parlantes. The Roman tale of Lucretia by Livy was inspiration for my triptych film of the same name. The myth of the weeping woman was the starting point for my video environment Llorona.

Art communicates, and the different forms of this communication lead to interpretative contradictions. Martin Jay * encourages us to wean ourselves off the fictitious idea of ​​what we see is “true” and recognise the fact that there are many scopic regimes. Everyone’s path of understanding and way of seeing is different and is shaped by social, psychological and biological filters. I hope that my work encourages a pluralistic, ambiguous and discursive engagement. I am driven to make visible these poetic, yet uncomfortable states through an atmosphere that attracts, repels and resonates.

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Hi Trisha,
I just came across your website and felt like getting in touch. Hope you won’t mind!

My name is Undra and I’m part of the Wooloo.org team. We are an art group running the website http://www.wooloo.org as a free resource for artists to connect with open calls for exhibitions, residencies and other opportunities.

WOOLOO.ORG is free to use and our members count more than 18,000 artists and curators – to whom we post several new Open Call opportunities every day.

We would like to invite you to try out our website, which can help you show and promote your work.

The team behind WOOLOO.ORG is the Danish art group Wooloo and we launched the website back in 2002. We had our first physical show at Artists Space in New York in 2004 and this year we are participating in the 54. Venice Biennial in Italy.

If you are interested in knowing more about us, here are some articles about a recent work we did for the Manifesta 8 biennial with participating WOOLOO.ORG members:

Dear Trisha
A friend of mine pointed out your films/website and I’m really glad she did. It is great to see other experimental film makers’ work and brilliant to see some common threads.
I am involved with a year long video project – 1 point 7 project – http://www.1point7project.blogspot.co.uk – where I produce short videos and the sound is produced independently by a musician. These are combined very three weeks and video/audio uploaded.
Good luck with Flux Soup – sounds brill.
Barry Griffiths